TwitRuss
@twitruss.bsky.social
3 things are subverting western democracy: money corrupting our politics, weaponised social media, and Russian interference.
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@twitruss.bsky.social
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Russia, the USA’s Cold War enemy has utterly infiltrated the government. Trump / Krasnov’s career nurtured by the soviets chancing he may one day wield influence for Russia. Putin never imagined sponsorship of political / business figures could deliver such control with American public acceptance.
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I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
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I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝
🇺🇦 Zelensky dismissed Yermak!
💥 BAVOVNA Saratov Oil Refinery
🔥 UAV storage site at Saky airfield, everal air defence assets were damaged at the airfield, including Pantsir-S1 and Tor-M2 systems were hit.
✨ A hangar storing Orion and Forpost UAVs was destroyed.
1/7
🇺🇦 Zelensky dismissed Yermak!
💥 BAVOVNA Saratov Oil Refinery
🔥 UAV storage site at Saky airfield, everal air defence assets were damaged at the airfield, including Pantsir-S1 and Tor-M2 systems were hit.
✨ A hangar storing Orion and Forpost UAVs was destroyed.
1/7
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
VERY BIG TOP NEWS TODAY 🔝
🇺🇦 Zelensky dismissed Yermak!
💥 BAVOVNA Saratov Oil Refinery
🔥 UAV storage site at Saky airfield, everal air defence assets were damaged at the airfield, including Pantsir-S1 and Tor-M2 systems were hit.
✨ A hangar storing Orion and Forpost UAVs was destroyed.
1/7
🇺🇦 Zelensky dismissed Yermak!
💥 BAVOVNA Saratov Oil Refinery
🔥 UAV storage site at Saky airfield, everal air defence assets were damaged at the airfield, including Pantsir-S1 and Tor-M2 systems were hit.
✨ A hangar storing Orion and Forpost UAVs was destroyed.
1/7
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We had a pogrom earlier this year on Ballymena, Northern Ireland with houses burned and dozens of families forced to flee.
And the kids accused of rape have now the charges dropped.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And the kids accused of rape have now the charges dropped.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ballymena: Romanian teenagers accused of rape to have charges dropped
The boys, aged 14 and 15, have been in custody since the alleged assault on 7 June which led to race riots across NI.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We had a pogrom earlier this year on Ballymena, Northern Ireland with houses burned and dozens of families forced to flee.
And the kids accused of rape have now the charges dropped.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
And the kids accused of rape have now the charges dropped.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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We are flooded with information yet starved of wisdom. Do you think the rise of AI will make things better, or worse?
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We are flooded with information yet starved of wisdom. Do you think the rise of AI will make things better, or worse?
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This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...
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Hang on, a pause is by definition temporary. Permanent is the opposite of temporary. “Permanent pause” is an oxymoron, a contradiction. If you want to be president of the US, don’t you think you should learn English, @realDonaldTrump ?
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Hang on, a pause is by definition temporary. Permanent is the opposite of temporary. “Permanent pause” is an oxymoron, a contradiction. If you want to be president of the US, don’t you think you should learn English, @realDonaldTrump ?
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After a career as an environment writer, here’s what I have learned
After a career as an environment writer, here’s what I have learned
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
After a career as an environment writer, here’s what I have learned
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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The contents of the version of the peace plan for Ukraine are being kept secret, say European officials, and much of Brussels remains in the dark. Negotiations between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations will continue through the weekend. But even senior EU diplomats admit nobody knows what changed.
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The contents of the version of the peace plan for Ukraine are being kept secret, say European officials, and much of Brussels remains in the dark. Negotiations between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations will continue through the weekend. But even senior EU diplomats admit nobody knows what changed.
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this is just gutter racism
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
this is just gutter racism
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Well done to @timfarron.bsky.social and team
Lib Dems take a seat from Labour in Penrith with a stonking 55% of the vote and fend off a strong challenge from Reform
Don't want Reform?
Then vote Lib Dem
Lib Dems take a seat from Labour in Penrith with a stonking 55% of the vote and fend off a strong challenge from Reform
Don't want Reform?
Then vote Lib Dem
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Well done to @timfarron.bsky.social and team
Lib Dems take a seat from Labour in Penrith with a stonking 55% of the vote and fend off a strong challenge from Reform
Don't want Reform?
Then vote Lib Dem
Lib Dems take a seat from Labour in Penrith with a stonking 55% of the vote and fend off a strong challenge from Reform
Don't want Reform?
Then vote Lib Dem
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Another one? How long until fingers are pointed at Farage himself?
November 28, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Another one? How long until fingers are pointed at Farage himself?
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"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
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If Rachel Reeves gets challenged about this bullseye on Farage being a Russian asset, she should simply reply that it was not meant in a hurtful way.
"We are freezing known Russian assets" says Rachel Reeves
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
"But let me be clear, I don't actually mean the member for Clacton"
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If Rachel Reeves gets challenged about this bullseye on Farage being a Russian asset, she should simply reply that it was not meant in a hurtful way.
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Gotta love descendants of immigrants gettin' all anti-immigrant n' fashy cuz they got made fun of in school cafeteria.
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Gotta love descendants of immigrants gettin' all anti-immigrant n' fashy cuz they got made fun of in school cafeteria.
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
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Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income reut.rs/4p65j0l
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration may slash income tax completely over the next couple of years because of government revenue generated from tariffs.
reut.rs
November 28, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income reut.rs/4p65j0l
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I highly recommend reading @zekefaux.bsky.social's book "Number Go Up," to get a deeper understanding of some of the actors who exploit victims by leveraging crypto and meme asset platforms.
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/20/h...
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/20/h...
How a Maine couple gave their $1.3 million retirement savings to bitcoin scammers
Larry and Barbara Cook are risking public embarrassment to spare others from a similar trauma. In the process, they're helping to rewrite federal and state income tax laws related to fraud losses.
www.pressherald.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I highly recommend reading @zekefaux.bsky.social's book "Number Go Up," to get a deeper understanding of some of the actors who exploit victims by leveraging crypto and meme asset platforms.
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/20/h...
www.pressherald.com/2025/11/20/h...
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The Guardian’s investigation into the Free Birth Society is a clear example of a closed, high-risk counterpublic. It can be examined directly through the lens of disordered discourse described in my work.
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Guardian’s investigation into the Free Birth Society is a clear example of a closed, high-risk counterpublic. It can be examined directly through the lens of disordered discourse described in my work.
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
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Locked out of ladders & subjected to perpetual renter hell, young people go for Dadaist financial short-termism
The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism
Locked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour
on.ft.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Locked out of ladders & subjected to perpetual renter hell, young people go for Dadaist financial short-termism
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OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8